What if: Hans Egede's expedition meets Greenlandic Norse

https://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/lost-norse-why-did-greenlands-vikings-disappear
In 1721, missionary Hans Egede sailed a ship called The Hope from Norway to Greenland, seeking Norse farmers whom Europeans hadn't heard from in 200 years in order to convert them to Protestantism. He explored iceberg-dotted fjords that gave way to gentle valleys, and silver lakes that shimmered below the massive ice cap. But when he asked the Inuit hunters he met about the Norse, they showed him crumbling stone church walls: the only remnants of 500 years of occupation. "What has been the fate of so many human beings, so long cut off from all intercourse with the more civilized world?" Egede wrote in an account of the journey.
What if instead of encoutering no Norsemen in Greenland, that Hans Egede had encountered a community of Norse who had been cut off from Europe for years?
 
He is immediately sacrificed to Odin by a group of criminally inbred, sickly Norse warriors like something off of a 3 am Sci Fi movie.
 
First if all they would likely still have had sporatic contact with Dutch whalers, the random Basque fishermen and other explorers. Next much droned on whether they have adopted a Inuit lifestyle or if they gave hold on to limited agriculture and herding[1]. In the latter case we will likely see Tyra expand their settlements as they suddenly are able to gain access to European resources.

[1] maybe they have moved into the ink and valleys of southern Greenlandic and through the use of forestry, lake building and wind breaks created local subarctic microclimates. Something similar exist in Paradisdalen in southern Greenland.
 
First if all they would likely still have had sporatic contact with Dutch whalers, the random Basque fishermen and other explorers. Next much droned on whether they have adopted a Inuit lifestyle or if they gave hold on to limited agriculture and herding[1]. In the latter case we will likely see Tyra expand their settlements as they suddenly are able to gain access to European resources.

[1] maybe they have moved into the ink and valleys of southern Greenlandic and through the use of forestry, lake building and wind breaks created local subarctic microclimates. Something similar exist in Paradisdalen in southern Greenland.
What is "Tyra"?
 
He is immediately sacrificed to Odin by a group of criminally inbred, sickly Norse warriors like something off of a 3 am Sci Fi movie.

Green: Tormund
Red: Thenn
"Mance sent you? Hmmh. How did you find us? You came from the south, not the north. Took a detour, got some supper from a village down that way. Why does the meat down here taste so much better than it does on our side of the wall? Help your self. Maybe everything is just better fed down here? Fat and lazy, easier for us."
 
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lake building and wind breaks created local subarctic microclimates. Something similar exist in Paradisdalen in southern Greenland.
Do you have more details on this? If I search for Paradisdalen, all the results on Google Maps are in Denmark proper.
 
Do you have more details on this? If I search for Paradisdalen, all the results on Google Maps are in Denmark proper.

I haven't English languages site with the name, but on the picture below is its name in Greenlandic.

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To be fair, it's not really a good sign when the most habitable and hospitable place in all of Greenland.... is kind of a steppe.
 
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